Underdogs

The Underdogs (Ft. Vortex, Lil’C, and Velocity)

Velocity: Alright, you boys ready?

Lil’C: We’re good, bro, start the beat.

Velocity: Yo, ‘Tex, you good over there?

Vortex: Homey, start the damn beat!

(Beat Plays)

Vortex: This song goes to all of you haters.

Lil’C: And it’s the hope for those who couldn’t make it.

Velocity: Yeah, yeah, yeah here we go!

(Vortex’s Verse) Ayo,

Vortex, Lil’C and Velocity, causin’ all the monstrosity!

Hip Hop’s my only form of Democracy, politics ain’t my kind of hypocrisy.

If I die young, I die loyal as an Underdog.

The Hip-Hop’s Three Musketeers, All for one, and one for all!

I’d never be Vortex without the guys, and I’d rather die than try!

 

Three names, same weather, different scars,

Same lunch tables, same doubts, same stars,

They don’t see work when it’s done in the dark,

Just the moment it sparks — like it happened by luck.

 

I learned early you stand on what you say,

No echoes, no masks, no borrowing names,

If I rap it, I live it, if I wrote it, I’m there,

I don’t need volume — put silence in air.

 

Underdogs ain’t victims, we chose this lane,

Pressure either breaks you or sharpens the blade,

I ain’t ever askin’ for belief, just space to grow,

If we make it out, let ‘em say they didn’t know.

(Lil’C’s Verse)

They judge from a distance, don’t know the deal,

I learned quick what’s borrowed don’t feel real,

Tried soundin’ like everybody else at first,

Until I felt the weight of words in a verse.

 

I’m here ‘cause the pen still answers me,

Every line gotta breathe when the beat goes free,

Underdogs taught me skill’s more than speed,

It’s sayin’ what you mean and meanin’ what you speak.

 

No shortcuts taken, no faces copied,

Grew into myself when the crowd got loud,

If the light never hits, I’m still proud,

‘Cause we built this circle when nobody came ‘round.

(Velocity’s Verse)

I don’t need the mic to put my name on the sound,

Every kick, every drop, got my fingerprints now,

Built beats outta rooms where the noise stayed low,

Turned nothing but time into highs and lows.

 

Underdogs don’t chase what’s trendy today,

I design the space where the words can stay,

If they ever ask who shaped that wave,

Tell ‘em Velocity — I made the stage

(Vortex, Lil’C, and Velocity’s Verse)

And everybody lookin’ for a reason to speak,

Look all around you, you just gotta believe!